Overhead in a Balloon: Twelve Stories of Paris

by Mavis Gallant

Book Overview

These twelve stories are set in Paris, Mavis Gallant's adopted home, a city whose nuances she brings to life through a wide range of characters: squabbling writers, bewildered parents, scheming art dealers, beleaguered tenants, and feckless drifters. An artist's widow proves more than a match for Sandor Speck, who hopes to make a name for himself with her late husband's paintings. Literary rivals Prism and Grippes, the prot?g?s of a rich, misguided...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394545117
• ISBN13: 9780394545110
• Release Date: February 1987
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.